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πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί EU-RLEX Legislation Dataset (Collected Until June 20, 2025)

πŸ“˜ Overview

This dataset provides structured and accessible European Union legislation data collected from EUR-Lex up to June 20, 2025. It is maintained by GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance to support open legal data research, machine learning applications, and transparency initiatives.

The dataset includes:

  • Metadata in a structured Parquet file
  • Full-text content of legislation documents in Markdown format

πŸ“ Dataset Structure

1. eurlex_legislation_data.parquet

A table containing metadata for each legislation document.

Columns:

  • title: Title of the legislation
  • document_link: URL to the official document or PDF
  • el_html_link: Link to the HTML version on EUR-Lex
  • category_id: Category id
  • category_title: Title of category
  • category_acts_count: number of acts that belong to this category

🧠 Note: The row index matches each corresponding Markdown file (e.g., row 0 β†’ md_0.md).


2. Markdown Files (md_*.md)

Each file contains the cleaned full text of a single legislation document, converted from HTML.

  • Naming format: md_0.md, md_1.md, ..., md_N.md
  • One-to-one mapping with rows in metadata.parquet

3. πŸ“Š Dataset Statistics

  • Total tokens: 604032339
  • Uncompressed size: 2.21GB
  • Words Count: 137750006

πŸ”“ License & Usage

This dataset is open and free to use under the terms of EUR-Lex’s Legal Notice. Please attribute EUR-Lex as the original source.

Published by: GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance


πŸ™Œ Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the Publications Office of the European Union for making this data publicly available via the EUR-Lex portal.

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